vdsl2 router

[Amos Shapira]

On 8 March 2016 at 21:01, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il> wrote:

>
>
> 2016-03-08 9:10 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>:
>
>> What exact model of TP-Link have you got?
>>
> WR740N (v4.x), WR841ND (v5.x), WR1043ND (v1.x)
>
>> I have a TP-Link AC1750 ADSL2+ modem router which is great except that
>> OpenWRT doesn't support this specific model's WiFi well (see multiple
>> "Notes" in https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500)
>>
> Did you check recently? The way I understand the notes v2 is fully
> supported while v1.x only the 2.4GHz Band is supported (though they do
> write that they don't do hardware NAT which will affect you if you have a
> WAN line > 300MBit/s).
>

I've just double checked this morning - the serial label on the router says
"v1.0", which means I can't take advantage of 802.11ac with OpenWRT on it
:(.


>
> So I'm half-heartedly on the lookout for something to run OpenWRT or VyOS
>> on, with 1Gb ethernet and 802.11ac WiFi and which can be used to do smart
>> and efficient routing especially over OpenVPN tunnels.
>>
> Let us know if you find something.... in a few month OpenWRT should be
> releasing 16.x (Designated Driver, if they manage to stick to the roughly
> yearly releases) which may bring improved support for your existing device
> considering how they already have half decent support there is someone (and
> probably more then one someone) working on it....
>
> If you want something really powerful with a very powerful OS have a look
> at this:
> http://routerboard.com/RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT
>

Perhaps my top priority, after having something that's flexible enough, is
hardware which won't take more than 3W to run.

Thanks,

--Amos
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